Replied to inform reporter ARIN investigated and confirmed the data in Whois is accurate

20120206-F920

Fraudulent Whois Information

Replied to inform reporter ARIN investigated and confirmed the data in Whois is accurate

20120206-F926

Fraudulent Whois Information

Replied to inform reporter ARIN investigated and confirmed the data in Whois is accurate

20120206-F927

Fraudulent Whois Information

Replied to inform reporter ARIN investigated and confirmed the data in Whois is accurate

20120209-F921

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120214-F928

Unregistered ASN Originating Routes

Contacted upstream ISP with request to remove the route or have the customer contact ARIN to get the ASN registered

20120215-F922

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120216-F923

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120218-F924

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120220-F929

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120301-F930

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120306-F950

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120318-F970

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120321-F971

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120323-F990

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120324-F972

Report of Incorrect APNIC Whois Information

Replied to inform reporter they need to contact APNIC directly

20120327-F973

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120327-F993

Fraud Outside ARIN Scope

Replied to inform reporter

20120328-F974

Report of Incorrect Whois Contact Information

Contacted organization and requested updated contact information

Total Fraud reports received this quarter = 27

Investigation Results

ARIN received a total of 27 fraud reports during the 1st quarter of 2012. There were six reports of potentially inaccurate or fraudulent ARIN Whois registration records and one report of inaccurate Whois registration records in the APNIC database. Additionally, there was one report of an unregistered ASN originating routes. ARIN has researched all of these reports and taken action where appropriate. The summary of these eight reports and actions taken are contained in the table above.

Nineteen of the fraud reports received during this quarter were reports of incidents related to phishing, spam, identity theft, stalking/harassment, etc. ARIN did not investigate any of these reports, because they are outside the scope of ARIN's mission. ARIN's response to each of these reports was to notify the reporter that the fraud reporting process is restricted to matters specifically related to ARIN's mission and area of authority such as false utilization reporting, number resource hijacking in ARIN's database, and other activity involving fraudulent submissions to ARIN or fraudulent changes to data in ARIN's Whois. In each of these report responses, ARIN staff provides additional useful information, including information on querying Whois, contact information for the network operator associated with a given IP address, etc. No further action was taken.